Here’s your Labor Day weekend lineup for the Sacramento area
Whether hitting the road for the holiday or staying around town, there’s plenty to do and see this Labor Day weekend in the Sacramento area from family festival favorites to a day at the ball park, community celebrations and live music.
Chalk it Up!
Chalk Art and Music Fesitival, Fremont Park, 16th and Q streets, Sacramento
Sacramento wouldn’t be Sacramento on Labor Day without this colorful celebration of sidewalk art at Fremont Park in Sacramento’s midtown. The free three-day festival begins Saturday and goes through Labor Day.
SacAnime Summer 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, 1400 J St., Sacramento
Cosplayers, superheroes and superfans return to SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in downtown Sacramento for SacAnime Summer 2025. Organizers call it the largest pop culture convention in Northern California, featuring special celebrity guests, artists and exhibitors, panels and workshops and the always-popular cosplay masquerade.
Tickets: Saturday-only tickets are $50; Saturday 4 p.m.-11 p.m. are $25; Sunday-only tickets are $30; Weekend tickets are $80. Free admission for children ages 11 and under. Purchase tickets at The Grand Ballroom, 1215 J St., Sacramento.
Apple Hill
El Dorado County
Labor Day weekend is the unofficial start to fall and there is no bigger fall tradition in the Sacramento area than a drive up Highway 50 to El Dorado County and Apple Hill, which officially kicks off its season this weekend.
Athletics vs. Texas Rangers
Sutter Health Park, 400 Ballpark Drive, West Sacramento
Head over the Tower Bridge to West Sacramento to watch the Athletics take on the Texas Rangers in a weekend series at Sutter Health Park. First pitch is 7:05 p.m. Friday and Saturday; with a 1:05 p.m. start on Sunday.
Sacramento Rainbow Festival
Lavender Heights neighborhood, 18th to 20th streets, Sacramento
Celebrate unity and equality Sunday at the day-long Sacramento Rainbow Festival on Sunday featuring live music by David Archuleta, Sacramento artist Kandia, and others and a marketplace spotlighting LGBTQ artists and businesses.
How’s the weather?
National Weather Service forecasters in Sacramento say Northern California is in for a picturesque holiday weekend. Temperatures across the Sacramento Valley will be in the mid-to high 90s as a warming trend continues into early next week. Clear skies and highs up to 90 degrees are forecast along the Sierra Nevada’s western slope.
Sacramento forecast
After a clear Friday night with a low near 62 degrees, Saturday and Sunday will be sunny and hot, with highs near 100 and light afternoon breezes. Overnight lows will hover in the mid-60s. The heat holds steady through Labor Day, with daytime highs again expected around 100 degrees.
Weather service forecasters say temperatures are trending above average into next week, with moderate heat risk developing across the region. Humidity will remain low, especially in the northern Sacramento Valley toward Redding, where daytime relative humidity could drop into the mid-teens, increasing fire conditions.
Foothills forecast
Conditions in the Sierra foothills will be slightly cooler but still warm, forecasters said. Auburn will see overnight lows in the upper 60s, with daytime highs in the mid-90s through the weekend. Saturday and Sunday bring sunny skies and light winds, and Labor Day is forecast to reach a high near 96 degrees. A slight chances of afternoon thunderstorms remain limited to the Sierra crest south of Highway 50.
Lake Tahoe forecast
A cooler but dry weekend is in store for the Tahoe region. South Lake Tahoe will see mostly clear nights with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Daytime highs will be in the mid-70s through Labor Day, with light winds and plenty of sunshine.
San Francisco Bay Area
Visitors to San Francisco and the surrounding coast can expect mild and breezy conditions. After overnight lows in the upper 50s on Friday, highs will top out in the low-to-mid 70s through Monday. Marine influence will help limit temperatures along the coast, but areas outside the immediate coast may warm 5 to 10 degrees each day through early next week.
Fire weather concerns are increasing across the Bay Area mountains, forecasters said. Relative humidity is forecast to drop into the 10%-20% range at higher elevations. Most interior Bay Area locations will near 100 degrees through the holiday and into the middle of next week, the weather service said.
Hitting the road
California drivers are still paying some of the highest prices in the nation, but the pain at the pump varies widely depending on where you fill up.
According to AAA, the statewide average for a gallon of regular unleaded on Thursday was $4.59. Sacramento drivers were paying slightly less at $4.56, a notch under the state average.
Prices were steeper in some of California’s biggest metro areas.
In San Francisco, the average price reached $4.71, the highest among the regions highlighted. The Los Angeles area averaged $4.61, and the Salinas/Monterey market climbed to $4.76.
By contrast, Modesto remained the relative bargain, at $4.38 a gallon for regular.That’s a spread of about 33 cents between Modesto and San Francisco, showing how much location still matters for California motorists.
Nationally, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the August average has hovered around $3.13 a gallon — nearly $1.50 cheaper than what Californians are paying.
This story was originally published August 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM.
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